AR-News: (NJ) Hunt brings a bonanza in quest for the bear facts

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Biologists relish the chance to study state's population
Sunday, December 14, 2003
BY BRIAN T. MURRAY AND JUDY PEET 
Star-Ledger Staff 
Hunter Mike Novak watched curiously as the wildlife biologists at Whittingham 
Wildlife Refuge in Sussex County got up close and personal with his dead 
bear. 
Armed with pliers, needles, a small skin punch, vials, a tape measure and a 
scale, they went to work. They rubbed its fur, examined the gunshot wounds, 
pulled back its lips and yanked a tooth.



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http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/jersey/index.ssf?/base/news-5/107138384441170.xm
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